Floaty Pens From Where I Live

Note: The pens featured on this page are part of my collection; they are not for sale or trade, with the exception of the Lake Manitoba pen (trades only).

Front: The “kids” – Wayne, Francine & Robert (floater) sit on The Big Rock and disappear behind the cottage to emerge on the other side all grown up (floater part 2)
Fireplace on left foreground and steps to the beach on right.
Back: “THE LUTY COTTAGE, Lake Manitoba, St. Laurent CANADA”
Picture of my hypertufa lake serpent (Mippie) on left and the Lutys – Mike & Mary on right, set against a beautiful Lake Manitoba sunset.twist & click

Front: Plane (floater) flies over downtown city scene; parliament building in center.
Back: “Souvenir of WINNIPEG Canada”
Pictures of Assiniboine Park Pavilion and the Golden Boy.

The Golden Boy graces the top of the Manitoba Legislature.

Front: Plane (floater) flies over downtown city scene.
Back: “souvenir of WINNIPEG CANADA”
Picture on right is Upper Fort Garry.1-vintage and 1-in colour

Well, there’s not much to say here. It’s an airport.
It was renamed Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport.
The original main terminal building was closed in 2011 and has since been demolished.

Front: Voyageurs in canoe (floater) paddle on the Assiniboine River at The Forks (where the Assiniboine and Red rivers meet).
A picture of the St. Boniface Cathedral is on left.
Back: “THE FORKS, Winnipeg, Canada”

Front: Voyageurs in canoe (floater) paddle down the Red River in St. Boniface. (The Cathedral is in the center background. The building to the right of it with the black roof is the St. Boniface Museum.)
Back: “SAINT BONIFACE, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA”

St. Boniface is Winnipeg’s “French Quarter”.

Front: Miniature steam train (floater), passes through Assiniboine Park.
Back: “ASSINIBOINE PARK, WINNIPEG, CANADA”
Pictures of (left) Boy with the Boot who stands at the entrance to the English Gardens and (right) the park Pavilion.

While at first glance these 2 pens look identical, the backgrounds on them are mirror images of each other.

Assiniboine Park opened in 1908 and covers 378 acres (153 hectares) along the Assiniboine River.

Front: The Prairie Dog (floater), a vintage train, crosses the prairies. (Second pen also has a stationary Red River cart on left.)
Back: “PRAIRIE DOG CENTRAL”

Front: The Nonsuch (floater) sails on the water (probably Hudson’s Bay). (You can board a replica of this 17th century two-masted ketch at the museum.)
Back: “MANITOBA MUSEUM OF MAN AND NATURE”

They’ve now dropped the “of Man and Nature”

Front: The Countess (floater) passes in front of a train station (actually looks more like the Manitoba Legislative building).
Back: “COUNTESS OF DUFFERIN, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA, GROWING TO BEAT 70”
Picture of Upper Fort Garry on left

This is a vintage pen issued in 1970, Manitoba’s Centennial year. Does anybody who was here at the time remember the “Hello Twenty-Seventy!” (2070) ceremony at the (old) arena? There was a time capsule that our family put something into for our descendents.

Front: The Countess (floater) passes in front of (left to right) the Manitoba Museum, Planetarium and Concert Hall .
Back: “COUNTESS OF DUFFERIN, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, MANITOBA MUSEUM OF MAN AND NATURE”
Picture of legislative building dome on right

This pen is one of my favourites. I’m a prairie girl. This is home. And I worked many years for CP Rail Intermodal Services (it’s not a ‘piggyback’ nor passenger train on the pen, though).

Everybody SING!
(partial)

Manitoba and Saskatchewan then followed,
Where the wheat fields and the old Red River flowed.
In the quiet hours your whistling on the prairie,
Touched my heart and set my memories aglow.
Canadian Pacific, carry me 3,000 miles………